Beta

Ra 1680

Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, H 112 sup. No diktyon: 42881.
s. XIII/1 | Parchment, 242 ff., 290 × 222 mm, 1 col., 30-32 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Small-sized minuscule, which is inclined to the right.). | Provenance: The manuscript was purchased in Corfu.
Catena on the Psalms and the Odes. | The manuscript contains variant readings in the margins. Its catena is similar to the one found in cod. Nicosiensis Bibl. Archiep. 21, see CPG C40.22. The names of the commentators are not mentioned. There is a double numbering of the folios. The above description is based on the numbering found in the lower margin of each folio. Several parts of the manuscript have been damaged and remain unreadable. Parpulov dates the manuscript to the 14th c.Text-type: L with some readings from B and variants from U.
Content
1r–223v Catena on the Ps 1-150 CPG C40.22
224r–224v Blank
225r–239v Catena on the Odes 1-9. It is defective at the beginning and at the end. CPG C45-C06
240r–242v Fragments of an unidentified non-Greek text.
Bibliography
Dorival, G., “La postérité littéraire des chaînes exégétiques grecques”, Revue des études byzantines 43 (1985) 209–226, 218–219. 
Dorival, G., Les chaînes exégétiques grecques sur les Psaumes: contribution à l'étude d'une forme littéraire, V, Leuven 2018, 267–272.
Parpulov, G., Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, Appendix B1. 
Catalogues
Martini, E., D. Bassi, Catalogus codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae, Milan 1906, 539–540. 
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 130.